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I wonder if there was a bill that Congress voted on in 2021-2022 that would have banned gerrymandering in every state.
Or another one in 2019.
Or a landmark Supreme Court case seeking to end it in 2019.
Now to find out how every Republican voted on each of tho—oh, they were unanimously opposed
Or another one in 2019.
Or a landmark Supreme Court case seeking to end it in 2019.
Now to find out how every Republican voted on each of tho—oh, they were unanimously opposed
California Republican suddenly supporting a national partisan gerrymandering ban. IT’S GAME THEORY BABY THINK OF THE STRATEGERY, WE PLAYING DEFECT-DEFECT NOT DEFECT-COOPERATE, IT’S TIT FOR TAT, CONSIDER THE INCENTIVES
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I wonder if there was a bill that Congress voted on in 2021-2022 that would have banned gerrymandering in every state.
Or another one in 2019.
Or a landmark Supreme Court case seeking to end it in 2019.
Now to find out how every Republican voted on each of tho—oh, they were unanimously opposed
Or another one in 2019.
Or a landmark Supreme Court case seeking to end it in 2019.
Now to find out how every Republican voted on each of tho—oh, they were unanimously opposed
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
My hometown. Lexington is a town of only about 11,500. So many families just had the rug pulled out from under them. Not a person in this town whose life or livelihood isn’t affected by this closure.
TYSON PLANT: The massive Tyson beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, which employs 3,200 people in an important part of Nebraska's cattle industry, is closing.
From Cindy Gonzalez:
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From Cindy Gonzalez:
buff.ly/FF4C0CT
Nebraskans lament Tyson decision to close Lexington plant with 3,200 workers • Nebraska Examiner
Nebraskans and elected leaders lament Tyson Foods' decision to close its Lexington beef plant, eliminating about 3,200 jobs.
nebraskaexaminer.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My hometown. Lexington is a town of only about 11,500. So many families just had the rug pulled out from under them. Not a person in this town whose life or livelihood isn’t affected by this closure.
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Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
Lincoln’s trampoline park deserts are growing smaller than its food deserts
A Sky Zone trampoline park is coming to the former Hobby Lobby near the corner of 48th and Van Dorn streets.
Trampoline park coming to former Hobby Lobby space in Lincoln
A Sky Zone trampoline park is coming to the former Hobby Lobby near the corner of 48th and Van Dorn streets.
journalstar.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Lincoln’s trampoline park deserts are growing smaller than its food deserts
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It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
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The Dems have been effectively protecting Americans from the GOPs worst ideas for decades - warning that the ideas are terrible. The GOP finally got to enact its worst ideas and it turns out they are terrible.
BEHIND THE CURTAIN: Republicans aren't only losing elections, they're consistently losing support on prices and the economy, in all polls, big or small, Republican or Democrat, over a several-month period.
You can't spin yourself out of reality.
You can't spin yourself out of reality.
Behind the Curtain: Republicans see dire 2026 warning signs in these 5 polls
Everywhere Republicans look, they see big political trouble.
www.axios.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Dems have been effectively protecting Americans from the GOPs worst ideas for decades - warning that the ideas are terrible. The GOP finally got to enact its worst ideas and it turns out they are terrible.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Page One in Iowa.
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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Trump's campaign to kill an industry where America runs a massive trade surplus is succeeding
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trump's campaign to kill an industry where America runs a massive trade surplus is succeeding
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
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the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
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While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
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Parties are shells that are continuously remade. Compare Ds/Rs in 1868, 1904, 1932, 1972, & today on class, race, gender, immigration, & religion.
Most of us want more parties, but that isn’t* viable w/o proportional representation.
Since 1972, all nominees are directly chosen by voters. Do that.
Most of us want more parties, but that isn’t* viable w/o proportional representation.
Since 1972, all nominees are directly chosen by voters. Do that.
"The best way to solve these problems is to leave the Democrats behind!"
"No, you can solve these problems more effectively by taking over the Democrats"
"LOOK AT WHO LOVES THE DEMOCRATS!"
"No, you can solve these problems more effectively by taking over the Democrats"
"LOOK AT WHO LOVES THE DEMOCRATS!"
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Parties are shells that are continuously remade. Compare Ds/Rs in 1868, 1904, 1932, 1972, & today on class, race, gender, immigration, & religion.
Most of us want more parties, but that isn’t* viable w/o proportional representation.
Since 1972, all nominees are directly chosen by voters. Do that.
Most of us want more parties, but that isn’t* viable w/o proportional representation.
Since 1972, all nominees are directly chosen by voters. Do that.
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
Me on Saturday mornings as a kid
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Me on Saturday mornings as a kid
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"If it pleases the court, our position is that the poor people should go hungry"
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"If it pleases the court, our position is that the poor people should go hungry"
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
A $30 million "fine" for no crime. Politically-motivated extortion of private institutions.
A $30 million "fine" for no crime. Politically-motivated extortion of private institutions.
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
A $30 million "fine" for no crime. Politically-motivated extortion of private institutions.
A $30 million "fine" for no crime. Politically-motivated extortion of private institutions.
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It's like the other schools aren't even trying
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It's like the other schools aren't even trying
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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Will be amazing when SCOTUS realizes that Congress has other powers also.
Supreme Court justices of all stripes had some tough questions for the Trump administration, making pretty clear two things:
1. Tariffs are taxes
2. Congress has the power to tax, not the president
www.notus.org/courts/supre...
1. Tariffs are taxes
2. Congress has the power to tax, not the president
www.notus.org/courts/supre...
Skeptical Supreme Court Questions the Trump Administration Over Tariff Powers
Some of the administration's arguments contradicted President Donald Trump’s statements about raising revenue through tariffs.
www.notus.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Will be amazing when SCOTUS realizes that Congress has other powers also.